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Pardus, Gregorius

or GEORGIUS (Γρεγόριος s.ΓεώργιοςΠάρδος), archbishop of Corinth, on which account he is called in some MSS. GEORGIUS (or GREGORIUS) CORINTHUS (Κόρινθος), and, by an error of the copyist, CORITHUS (Κορίθου, in Gen.) and CORUTUS (Κορύτου, in Gen.), or CORYTUS, a Greek writer on grammar of uncertain date.

The only clue that we have to the period in which he lived is a passage in an unpublished work of his, DeConstructioneOrationis, in which he describes Georgius Pisida [GEORGIUS,, No. 44], Nicolaus Callicles, and Theodorus Prodromus as "more recent writers of Iambic verse."Nicolaus and Theodorus belong to the reign of Alexius I. Comnenus (A. D. 1081-1118), and therefore Pardus must belong to a still later period; but his vague use of the term "more recent," as applied to writers of such different periods as the seventh and eleventh or twelfth centuries, precludes us from determining how near to the reign of Alexius he is to be placed.
It was long supposed that Corinthus was his name; but Allatius, in his DiatribadeGeorgiis, pointed out that Pardus was his name and Corinthus that of his see; on his occupation of which he appears to have disused his name and designated himself by his bishopric.

It was afterwards frequently reprinted as an appendix to the earlier Greek dictionaries, or in the collections of grammatical treatises (e. g. in the Thesaurus Cornucopiae of Aldus, fol. Venice, 1496, with the works of Constantine Lascaris, 4to. Venice, 1512; in the dictionaries of Aldus and Asulanus, fol. Venice, 1524, and of De Sessa and Ravanis, fol. Venice, 1525), sometimes with a Latin version. Sometimes (as in the Greek Lexicons of Stephanus and Scapula) the version only was given.

All these earlier editions were made from two or three MSS., and were very defective.
But in the last century Gisbertus Koenius, Greek professor at Franeker, by the collation of fresh MSS., published the work in a more complete form, with a preface and notes, under the title of ΓρηγορίουμητροπολίτουΚορίνθουπερὶδιαλέκτων, GregoriusCorinthiMetropolitadeDialectis, 8vo. Leyden, 1766. The volume included two other treatises or abstracts on the dialects by the anonymous writers known as Grammaticus Leidensis and Grammaticus Meermannianus. An edition by G. H. Schaetffer, containing the treatises published by Koenius, and one or two additional, among which was the tract of Manuel Moschopulus, De Vocum Passionihus [MOSCHOPULUS], was subsequently published, 8vo. Leipzig, 1811, with copious notes and observations, by Koenius, Bastius, Boissonade, and Schaeffer; and a Commentatio Paleographica, by Bastius.

William Smith. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. London. John Murray: printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square and Parliament Street. In the article on Soranus, we find: "at this present time (1848)" and this date seems to reflect the dates of works cited. 1873 - probably the printing date.